Recapping the 2016 Season in 6 words or less
 

Certainly the 2016 season was filled with some awesome memories, matches, and events. But if you had to recap the entire FRC 2016 season for your team or in general, in 6 words or less, what would they be?
mine are: Stronghold definitely towers above Recycle Rush

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#TSIMFD

or, for a real answer:

A fitting end to true Championships.

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Come on, you had to see this one coming a lot with this thread

Mine wold be, "Damaged Defenses, Damaged Drive-trains, Damaged Robots"

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Pneumatic wheels are out of stock

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Haha I am bracing myself for the onslaught of people posting that in this thread

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Red cards.

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Just keep flipping.

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More than robots, 9 team awards.

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Stronghold had a stronghold on me. ;)

Seriously though, this game was great & enjoyable. Super glad to experience this during senior year. It makes me ponder whether 2013 and 2014 were better than this game.. choosing one between the 3 is tough.

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NEVER.GIVE.UP

I heard the Beach Bots 330 brought the house down.

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This $@#$@#$@#$@# is mother$@#$@#$@#$@#ing dope.

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Get on the batter!

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Mine would be:

"Oh no, the swerve broke again!"

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We bent another roller.

-Drive Team, Team 2619 2K16

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"Dangit 900!" - The NC district field reset crew.

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"Watch out we're scaling!"

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The cheval de frise is broken.

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One more...

"Reasonably astute observer"

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Scouting matters...

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"They'll never call three backup teams" -mentor

"We're scaling the tower once today" - me

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Fewest number of FOUL points awarded

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"900 dislodged the rock wall again."


For us: "Guys, I think we fixed autonomous!" ...We didn't.

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"We'll fix it in the pit."

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"All the defenses change next match" :,,,,,(

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Inspired students this never gets old.

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"We're billing 900 for the carpet."

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Game footage?

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What's better than Robotics? MORE Robotics!!!

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Monty Python + Pulp Fiction + Robot Sports

(If the Pulp Fiction reference isn't obvious, it's the language, duh)

Edit: I sort of forgot that Holy Grail has some scenes in it that are less than savory. How dare FIRST use something so shocking?

Sorry, couldn't help it.

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My team:

Glued up wheels, captain on Einstein

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Can't beat the Beach.

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I am guessing the rock wall was not the only casualty from 900? ;)

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We sucked, got good, sucked again

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At least among my team:

Seriously?! How did we lose those?

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"Anything but the sally port" -coming from field reset

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Do you have any extra gears?

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How did you bend That!😳

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Einstein Finals: six different robot designs

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Almost as bad as the portcullis coming down on Curie Match 120. Did anyone catch that on film?

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"The referee panels froze during autonomous."

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"You're that guy from Chief Delphi!"

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"Why I don't have a WAI"

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"Should have done vision tracking"

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We hit the high auto shot all the time, but sometimes it bounces out.
*Adjusts Auto*
We missed the tower...
Hey, we didn't bounce out.

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This sh-t is mother fu-king dope

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All the Broken Things
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120109213400

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#HoldStrong

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Let's just blame the programming team. :rolleyes:

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Programming: "Missed auto, how, it's hard coded!"

Hardware: "We fixed the chain again" (We broke at least one segment of our chain every round)

Business: "..." (lol, its says nothing, get it? We pretty much don't have a business team ::ouch:: )

Programming again: "We fixed the pie" (after every time they thought they got it working)

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#CantBreachTheBeach

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"Oh... The frame is bent now."

and

"Please no more Monty Python Jokes"

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Personal:
"Hey, last minute, can you Ref?"

Team:
"We're going Rhino Tread, final answer."

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Mid-Waterloo : "We have a high goal shot?"

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Ground gears and stripped sprokets

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Mechanical: "Arm doesn't have enough torque. Off."

Electrical: "But we just soldered the motors."

Programming: "But we just got PID working."

Mentor: "The motor shaft just popped out."

(5 weeks later)

Drive team: "If only we had high goal."


True story: they put a BAG motor on thinking it was a Mini-CIM.

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"Our wheels just keeps falling off."

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At least it's not Recycle Rush

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"thats not the low bar, ROUS" - us to our robot after it decided to leave the arena during auto.
(ROUS = Robot Of Unusual Size, the name of our unusually small robot this year)

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Do we have space for that?

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The rise and fall of Boulderman.

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<not_an_entry>
Remember kids, it's never too early to start moving towards the batter.
</not_an_entry>

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>mfw difference between us being 6 and 1 seed at CHCMP was robots on batters

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Climb! Climb! Climb! Climb! Climb! Climb!

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We shattered another gear!

-Connor

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"IT WAS CAD'S FAULT":ahh:

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Holy $@#$@#$@#$@#, we're alliance captains again?

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A crap ton of duct tape.

Our electronics board and the entire bottom of our robot was held together by red blue and gray duct tape... word to the wise: NEVER use 1/4in acrylic plexiglass for a belly pan or electronics board.

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Sadly port, rough times terrain, shovel-de-cries

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Didn't know we could do that.

Some examples:

Watch the center red robot that got hung up on the ramparts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNQrCiVVZE&t=35s

Watch the red spybot whose arm failed to come down and then fired, ricocheting off the arm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...g2v9AhJL8&t=0s

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How did we get this far?

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We stripped another gear.

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"Hurry, we broke the drivetrain again"

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Hard work and organization generate success.

Seriously, compared to 2015, 2016 was phenomenal. Last year, our robot barely even moved, but this season, we made it to quarterfinals at both regionals we attended, and ended up getting a wildcard to go to Worlds. None of this would have been possible without our new head mentor, though :)

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Wildcard or wait list for Champs? Wildcards don't go past the finals...

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Moment of silence for broken field.

The field in athens for the peachtree district champs kept breaking, so some drive teams took a knee to pay respect to the injured field.

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HOLY DEAN KAMEN.... LETS DO THIS

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"Stop. Walking. Over. Defenses. PLEASE."
"Another yellow card given to..." :p

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There's a thread on it and a short video of 3770 stuck on the portcullis before it fell. I couldn't find a video of the entire match, as the one on TBA must be of the replay.

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Sally Port, Rockwall, Ramparts, Cheval

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On second thought, let's not.

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I don't understand, did you not like the game?

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Low bar compatible? And you scale??!?!?!?!

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Vomiting gears doesnt stop us!

1 failed intake... 2 failed intake...

WELL THERE GOES OUR WHEEL!!!!

WELL THERE GOES OUR BUMPER!!!!

WELL THERE GOES THE CHAIN!!!!

WELL THERE GOES ANOTHER GEAR!!!!

You turned on the robot... right?

You changed the battery... right?

This are our sneezon in 6 words or less. Sounds bad but it wasn't, couldnt have been a better time, never a dull moment for us (especially for pit team :D )! Always broken but never out of commision, the robot drove like a tank and could lose any part and keep going. Never missed a match. Can't thank my team and everyone we competed against for the best year of my life.

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ANOTHER BELT BROKE?!?!

Bonus: add "IN THE FINALS?!?!"

Background: We went through probably 15 belts on our drivetrain this season due to shearing and snapping, and in Finals Match 1 at Woodhaven, we snapped a belt and didn't notice until we were carrying the bot off the field, and a field reset volunteer came up to us with a belt in her hand and said, "Is this yours?". We proceeded to freak out and tear the drivetrain apart to put in a new belt.We finished putting the last hex shaft collar on to finish the switch as they called us out to the match, which we proceeded to win, and then win the third match.

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Awesome game, wedge-o-matic, scouting team rules!

(Sorry, scouting mentor is a little biased...)

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How did that crossing not count?

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Tell everyone to choose the cheval

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Got an offer I couldn't refuse.

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The gear is sheared again

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It's not personal, it's just business.

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Is the robot done yet ?

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Why didn't we get picked? ;)

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Breaking defenses in every way...

I call my teams drivers the destroyers for a reason.

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Oh ya, totally agree. Scouting was super important this year. Not only important for alliance selection, but it was also helpful for us on the drive team to pic defenses for every match. Thank god for the scouting team this year.

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"You're on top of a ball"

"I thought you submitted the defenses..."

"It bounced off the chains again"

The Monty Python year.

Something brakes every match.

Expect playoff upsets.

Most strategic game ever.